Novara FC
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| Full name | Novara Football Club | ||
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| Nickname(s) | Gli Azzurri(The Blues/The Light Blues) I Gaudenziani(TheGaudentians) | ||
| Founded | 1908 2021as Novara FC | ||
| Ground | Stadio Silvio Piola, Novara,Italy | ||
| Capacity | 17,875 | ||
| Chairman | Marco La Rosa | ||
| Manager | Giacomo Gattuso | ||
| League | Serie CGroup A | ||
| 2023–24 | Serie C Group A, 17th of 20 | ||
| Website | Club website | ||
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Novara Football Club,commonly referred to asNovara,is anItalian footballclub based inNovara,Piedmont.[1]
The club was founded in 2021 by theCity of Novarato replace oldNovara Calciothat lost its professional status.
History
[edit]In December 1908 theF.A.S. (Football Association Studenti)was created by eight students ofLiceo Carlo Alberto,aged between 15 and 16 years; among them an engineer, Gianni Canestrini, and a lawyer, Piero Zorini. In Novara in those days, there were other small clubs likeVoluntas,Pro Scalon,Ginnastica e Scherma,Forza & Speranza,Collegio Gallariniand many other student bodies. The best players from these teams came together to formNovara Calcio,and made their debut in the Italian league on 3 November 1912.
The first match was played against a team already then established asTorino,who won 2–1.
In the years between World War I and World War II, Novara challenged withPro Vercelli,AlessandriaandCasaleto make the so-called"quadrilatero piemontese" (Piedmont Quadrilateral).Novara played aCoppa Italiafinal againstInter Milanin 1939.[2]Novara's highest finish came in 1952 when they finished in eighth place inSerie A.
During these years of staying in the top flight, Novara hadSilvio Piolato thank. His many goals (which at the end of his career was over 300), made a huge contribution to the cause of Novara. Following his death in 1996, the stadium at which Novara play was dedicated in his name.
In 1956 came relegation toSerie B,and another five years afterwards, they slipped down toSerie Cdue to a fraudulent complaint by aSambenedetteseplayer.
A few successful seasons in Serie B followed, but then Novara stumbled again in 1977 with relegation to Serie C and worse in 1981 toSerie C2.In the 1995–96 season, Novara were back in Serie C1, but this joy was short-lived as the following year, thebiancoazzurriagain had to deal with relegation.
Years were spent in the shadows of Italian football until more recently when the league was won in the 2002–03 season.
From Serie C1 to Serie A
[edit]Consolidation in Serie C1 followed, later becomingLega Pro Prima Divisione,until the historic promotion of the2009–10 seasonwhere the club returned toSerie Bafter 33 years.[3]
On 12 June 2011, Novara remarkably secured its promotion toSerie Aafter a 55-year absence from the league, by defeatingPadovain the play-off final.[4]Both consecutive promotions were achieved under the tenure of head coachAttilio Tesser,who was confirmed as Novara Boss also for the following 2011–12 top flight campaign.
On 20 September 2011, the first home game inSerie Afor 55 years, Novara recorded an historic 3–1 victory overInter.[5]
This remarkable feat, however, was not representative of their season as Novara managed to win only one more game until the end of January, when it won again againstInterinSan Siro.The manager Attilio Tesser was replaced by veteran coachEmiliano Mondonicoand re-hired one month later in a desperate and ultimately vain attempt by the owners to save the club from relegation. The club was immediately relegated again toSerie Bafter one season. Novara finished 5th in 2012–13 season but were eliminated byEmpoliin the promotion play-offs. The following season was terrible for Novara as the club finished 19th in Serie B and lost in a play-out againstVarese,losing 4–2 on aggregate. Thus, Novara were relegated toLega Pro.Novara were crowned as champions of Group A of Lega Pro in 2014–15 and immediately returned to Serie B. In their first season back in Serie B they finished in a playoff spot but they lost to eventual winnersPescarain the semifinal. The following season saw them finish outside the playoffs in 9th, 4 points from a playoff spot. The following season saw Novara get relegated back to Lega Pro following a 20th-place finish in the2017–18 Serie B.
During the summer of 2021, Novara lost its professional status[6][7]and a phoenix club was founded inSerie Daccording toarticle 52 of FIGC's regulationsNOIF.[8]They were promoted back to Serie C in May 2022, after finishing top of their group inSerie D.[9]
Current squad
[edit]- As of 30 August 2024[10]
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined underFIFA eligibility rules.Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Managers
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Ferenc Molnár(1931–32)- Árpád Weisz(1934–35)
Evaristo Barrera(1956–58)
Carlo Parola(1969–74)- Bruno Bolchi(1978–79)
- Angelo Domenghini(1989–90)
- Luigi Delneri(1992–94)
- Franco Colomba(1994–95)
- Alberto Marchetti(1999)
- Giuliano Zoratti(1999–00)
- Luciano Foschi(2002–04)
- Antonio Cabrini(2005–06)
- Attilio Tesser(2009–12),Emiliano Mondonico(2012),Attilio Tesser(2012)
- Alfredo Aglietti(2012–13)
- Alessandro Calori(2013–14)
- Alfredo Aglietti(2014)
- Marco Baroni(2015–16)
- Roberto Boscaglia(2016–17)
- Eugenio Corini(2017–18)
- Domenico Di Carlo(2017–18)
- William Viali(2018–19)
- Giuseppe Sannino(2018–19)
- William Viali(2018–19)
- Simone Banchieri(2019–20)
- Simone Banchieri(2020–21)
- Michele Marcolini(2020–21)
- Simone Banchieri(2020–21)
- Marco Marchionni(2021–22)
- Franco Semioli(2022–23)
- Giacomo Gattuso(2023–24)
Honours
[edit]League
[edit]Cups
[edit]- Supercoppa di Serie C
- Winners:2010, 2015
Divisional movements
[edit]| Series | Years | Last | Promotions | Relegations |
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| A | 13 | 2011–12 | - |  5 (1929,1937,1941,1956,2012)
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| B | 34 | 2015–16 |  5 (1927,1936,1938,1948,2011) |
5 (1962,1968,1977,2014,2018)
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| C +C2 |
21 +21 |
2020–21 | 4 (1965,1970,2010,2015)2 (1996 C2,2003 C2) |
3 (1981 C1,1997 C1,2021✟) |
| 89 out of 90 years of professional football in Italy since 1929 | ||||
| D | 1 | 2021–22 | - | - |
References
[edit]- ^C'è la firma dal notaio: è nato il Novara football club.2021-08-20
- ^"Storia".
- ^"La storia"(in Italian). Novara Calcio.Retrieved1 November2010.
- ^"Novara seal return to Serie A".Archived fromthe originalon 24 May 2012.
- ^"Inter allergica al sintetico".
- ^FIGC 2021/15
- ^FIGC 2021/61
- ^Gravina, Gabriele; Brunelli, Marco (7 September 2021)."Il Presidente Federale"(PDF).Comunicato Ufficiale(in Italian). 2020–21 (71/A). Italian Football Federation.Retrieved17 December2021.
- ^"Il Novara torna tra i pro: è la terza squadra promossa in Serie C".May 2022.
- ^"Prima Squadra Maschile – Novara Football Club"(in Italian).Retrieved13 July2022.
External links
[edit]- Official website(in Italian)
- Novara FC
- Football clubs in Italy
- Football clubs in Piedmont and Aosta Valley
- Association football clubs established in 1908
- Italian football First Division clubs
- Serie A clubs
- Serie B clubs
- Serie C clubs
- Serie D clubs
- 1908 establishments in Italy
- Phoenix clubs (association football)
- 2021 establishments in Italy